Physics General News

Q&A: Quantum state of photoelectrons measured for the first time

 Physics General News
 12 February 2025
For the first time, researchers have been able to measure the quantum state of electrons ejected from atoms that have absorbed high-energy light pulses. This is thanks to a new measurement technique developed by researchers at Lund University in Sweden. The results can provide a better understanding...

Novel imaging method captures the dynamics of spin waves

 Physics General News
 12 February 2025
One major category of the next generation of energy-efficient microelectronic devices and information processing technologies will likely be based on "spintronics," which leverage both an electron's charge and its spin—the tiny "up" or "down" magnetic moment carried by every electron. Now, a...

Physicists find deformed nuclei when searching for 'dark forces'

 Physics General News
 12 February 2025
When world-leading teams join forces, new findings are bound to be made. This is what happened when quantum physicists from the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) and the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg combined atomic and nuclear physics with unprecedented...

In a first, physicists set an upper limit in the search for hybrid mesons

 Physics General News
 11 February 2025
Carnegie Mellon University's Professor Curtis Meyer and his research colleagues explore an uncharted world inside protons and neutrons. For the first time, researchers have provided measurements describing a maximum boundary for a subatomic particle known as a hybrid meson in a journal paper...

A promising technique to steer laser-produced THz radiation in air

 Physics General News
 11 February 2025
Terahertz radiation (THz), electromagnetic radiation with frequencies ranging from 0.1 and 10 THz, is central to the functioning of various technologies, including imaging, sensing and spectroscopy tools. While THz radiation waves have been manipulated in different ways over the past decades,...

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